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The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.

by sampo 6y ago

incanus77 6y ago
Sounds like a good alternate toilet.
puzzlingcaptcha 6y ago
Interestingly, Thunar has had a similar pet peeve: it could not remember per-directory view settings (e.g. sorting order). This was finally fixed a couple months ago, 13 years after the original bug was filed (#3521).
- colonwqbang 6y ago
  I started writing a comment about this but then I saw that it finally got fixed! Not a day too soon, it makes thunar a lot easier to recommend to others. And saves me some time when looking for things in my downloads directory!
opencl 6y ago
The post isn't actually about GNOME's file manager (which does have thumbnails), it's about the GTK file picker which is the same in any DE.
- lmz 6y ago
  And without reading the bug, the issue with adding thumbnail support to that one is probably because thumbnails need to be cached to be fast, and it would be odd for a filepicker to be creating its own cache files (since it can't make any assumptions about the system it runs on).
  - ubercow13 6y ago
    It's not that. Firstly there is a standard for where to cache thumbnails at least on Linux, and secondly the file picker already generates (or at least displays) thumbnails. It's shown in the article. It's just that GTK has no suitable widget for showing them properly.
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colonwqbang 6y ago
Thunar is great, however it does no good here. Your various programs like GIMP will always use the Gnome/GTK file picker because that's what they've been programmed to do. Or, if not based on GTK they will use whatever other file picker their toolkit provided.
- shrimp_emoji 6y ago
  >Thunar is great Thunar is to Dolphin what a slingshot is to an M16. I never understood how people settle for such barebones file managers (i.e., less featureful than Windows Explorer).
  - Subsentient 6y ago
    What exactly is Thunar missing for you? I genuinely like it.
- vetinari 6y ago
  > Your various programs like GIMP will always use the Gnome/GTK file picker because that's what they've been programmed to do. Or, if not based on GTK they will use whatever other file picker their toolkit provided. Well, not really. Anymore. Recently (give or take few years), toolkits and applications started to use desktop portal - mainly as a preparation for sandboxing (i.e. putting the app inside flatpak & co). The application, optionally inside sandbox, doesn't use the framework's common dialog - because that would not give it access to files outside sandbox - but talks to the desktop provided one via dbus. That desktop provided one does not have to be implemented by the framework that the application uses. It is implemented by the DE that the user chooses.

The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.

by sampo 6y ago

The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.

incanus77 6y ago

Sounds like a good alternate toilet.

puzzlingcaptcha 6y ago

Interestingly, Thunar has had a similar pet peeve: it could not remember per-directory view settings (e.g. sorting order). This was finally fixed a couple months ago, 13 years after the original bug was filed (#3521).

colonwqbang 6y ago
I started writing a comment about this but then I saw that it finally got fixed! Not a day too soon, it makes thunar a lot easier to recommend to others. And saves me some time when looking for things in my downloads directory!

opencl 6y ago

The post isn't actually about GNOME's file manager (which does have thumbnails), it's about the GTK file picker which is the same in any DE.

lmz 6y ago
And without reading the bug, the issue with adding thumbnail support to that one is probably because thumbnails need to be cached to be fast, and it would be odd for a filepicker to be creating its own cache files (since it can't make any assumptions about the system it runs on).
- ubercow13 6y ago
  It's not that. Firstly there is a standard for where to cache thumbnails at least on Linux, and secondly the file picker already generates (or at least displays) thumbnails. It's shown in the article. It's just that GTK has no suitable widget for showing them properly.

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colonwqbang 6y ago

Thunar is great, however it does no good here. Your various programs like GIMP will always use the Gnome/GTK file picker because that's what they've been programmed to do. Or, if not based on GTK they will use whatever other file picker their toolkit provided.

shrimp_emoji 6y ago
>Thunar is great Thunar is to Dolphin what a slingshot is to an M16. I never understood how people settle for such barebones file managers (i.e., less featureful than Windows Explorer).
- Subsentient 6y ago
  What exactly is Thunar missing for you? I genuinely like it.
vetinari 6y ago
> Your various programs like GIMP will always use the Gnome/GTK file picker because that's what they've been programmed to do. Or, if not based on GTK they will use whatever other file picker their toolkit provided. Well, not really. Anymore. Recently (give or take few years), toolkits and applications started to use desktop portal - mainly as a preparation for sandboxing (i.e. putting the app inside flatpak & co). The application, optionally inside sandbox, doesn't use the framework's common dialog - because that would not give it access to files outside sandbox - but talks to the desktop provided one via dbus. That desktop provided one does not have to be implemented by the framework that the application uses. It is implemented by the DE that the user chooses.